So The match referee Kevin Clancy, booked “el gruffalo” for the throat cutting gesture made towards the Celtic supporters when leaving the field of play on 29 December?
Are we seriously expected to believe it’s taken almost 3 weeks for this piece of information to be disclosed or leaked to the succulent media?
Does anyone truly believe that rather than face the wrath of the world’s press, a clamour from Celtic supporters and wholesale condemnation that we’re only been made aware of this now?
The whole sorry things smacks of a con job.
If the Rangers were aware of this you can bet your bottom dollar and the three points that were at stake that to protect the image of their most sellable asset they would have been shouting from the rooftops that “the referee had taken appropriate action” and that the matter had been dealt, case closed.
It smacks of a cover up… Nothing more, and anyone with semblance of common sense can see this for what it is.
Over the last few days footage has emerged of “el gruffalo” kicking out at Ryan Christie with no call for retrospective action, despite the disparity of the justice meted out to Ryan Christie for an identical incident involving “el gruffalo” with no action taken.
We’ve seen the Rangers propaganda machine supported by the succulent media here in this “fair” old Isle portray him as a beacon of virtue, an almost Mother Theresa like figure in Colombia in an attempt to polish up a tarnished image, almost unsellable, at best at a vastly reduced transfer fee.
In the past I have called on the directors of Celtic FC to do the right thing and stand up for the club and most importantly it’s paying customers. (To them that’s what we are – customers).
It has now become impossible to second guess our club’s response.
It seems that despite our success both financially and on the field of play, Celtic is happy to play the role of second class citizens, a troublesome neighbour.
This is a club who are grasping at straws hoping for some escape from the impending judgment in the Sports Direct case because they’re well aware it could be what tips them over the edge and once again into the abyss and the one thing that may rescue them is the money from “el gruffalo’s” transfer fee.
Common sense and fair play has to prevail here.
David Early
ALSO ON THIRD YELLOWGATE THIS MORNING BY THE CELTIC STAR EDITOR…
LATE last night I was chatting online to the editor of Caught Offside, one of the biggest football websites covering the English Premiership. I put this one to him for his thoughts.
“Player receives a second yellow card. On his way off the park he threatens rival fans by doing a throat slitting gesture. Is it believable, even possible that the referee can issue him with a third yellow card for this action? ie in English or European football could this happen?”
His response. “Never heard of such a thing…The referee should submit a witness statement about the gesture in his usual match report, but a third card takes us into Mickey Mouse territory.”
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‘A third card takes us into Mickey Mouse territory,’ Caught Offside Editor…see HERE.
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